/*
 * Copyright 2010 Christopher Z. Collier
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package net.xorf.caveman.gui;

import org.jdom.Attribute;
import org.swixml.Converter;
import org.swixml.Localizer;

/**
 * A Swixml attribute converter to take a delimited string
 * of values and convert it to an array of strings.
 * 
 * @author ccollier
 */
public class DelimitedListConverter implements Converter {

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public Object convert(Class clazz, Attribute attr, Localizer localizer)
            throws Exception {

        String nameStr = attr.getValue();
        String[] colNames = nameStr.split("[|;,]");
        return colNames;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public Class convertsTo() {
        return String[].class;
    }
}
